How ungroup the "Open as..." context menu entry?
If I am using only 2 Profiles, I'm good
Screen of only 2 profiles
As you can see in the screenshot, I have to do two clicks for opening an url link within the other profile.
Screen of 3 or more profiles
But if I have a third profile, the context menu changes, it creates an expandable item, grouping the other profiles. That is very annoying, because I have to navigate first to the "Open as" line and then after a short delay or an additional click the profile-list appeares where I need to select appropriate profile.
Can we revert the behaviour to list all available profiles within the root context menu?
May we create a keyboard-shortcut for every profile, so pressing the asssigned button while clicking on any links, will open the url in that profile.
Or is there an extension for doing the job? I couldn find any useful information to solve this...
Thanks in advance for any helpful advices :)
(sorry for the spellingmistakes)
Offtopic:
(migrating from ff to chromium. Everyday web-based apps for end-consumers getting more focus, which means in my eyes, programmatically design gets more limited due to the main concept behind our standardized world wide web. And additionally user control gets worse everyday because that's the new key to generate money no longer just for complex & highly specialized products. e.g. timeinvestigation is enormous to through out all the bugs and bullshit extensions to get a reasonably useful tool for accessing the world wide web.)
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Way too many tabs!
I have a online website and affiliate with amazon. I have many product links to Amazon (image versus text; targeted to the specific products on amazon). When visitor clicks on a product image (my site) it opens a new tab and for each additional product image clicked, more tabs open. It will really distract buyers who want to purchase more than one items.
I believe this question has been posed around but I can't find if here is a clean solution. I would like to have the following occur and any guidance would be appreciated". (note- As of now my links for a new tab to open so my site is remains up and viewable:
1) on a first link click, a new tab opens to the product page where the viewer can log into their Amazon account and shopping cart. I will call this newly opened Tab B
2) any subsequent link clicks from my site are targeted to Tab B, essentially refreshing Tab B.
It appears Amazon can track so I am expecting that even when Tab B is refreshed the visitor remains logged into their account and shopping cart!????
I use WIX for my site development...no haters now as I am not a coder!
I am not a coder and as such not the sharpest tool in the shed. That said I can figure code when I see it, if that makes sense.
Set the target to a name or "blank" like this example. Then on each link just make sure you reference the name target name.
Google
That will open a new tab and continually use the same tab on additional clicks.
See here for more info on HTML a tags.
https://html.com/attributes/a-target/
Sorry for cumbersome title, couldn't come up with more descriptive one.
The problem is when opened tab is left without user activity, for example user switched to another screen, Chrome stops rendering changes on that tab. Looks like any background activity is put on hold which is great from perspective of saving power and resources. But if user still needs to see all live updates what is the way to prevent tab to go to 'idle' state despite of having no user activity?
I was looking into chrome.idle API but it doesn't say how to prevent, only how to check.
I'm doing a training class right now and one of the games I plan on doing is a Jeopardy style of Q & A. The problem I'm trying to figure out is the buzzer. My idea is to use the projector as the question board I control. The trainees would go to an HTML page with nothing more than a single button. They would turn their monitors around to face me up front. As soon as I read the question they would click the button and it would change their screens the color red.
The button and background color change is easy enough, I got that. There are two problems I'm facing: 1) I need it so that they can't click the button until I'm done reading the question - this one isn't as important, I can just make up a rule. 2) Only the fastest person will have a red screen. To show me who clicked first. The others' buttons will be disabled.
I just have no idea how to even Google these two things. Like: "Disable button for other users"...? Or maybe, "only one click"...?
Any direction to search is appreciated. Eventually, I'd like to add other aspects to like the presenter could click an "incorrect button" then it would clear the screen and enable all the buttons again, for the answer steal.
You can do it with modern WebSocket or applications interact via TCP. However, WebSocket may be overkill for the simple application with a few teams. I faced the same problem before and developed a simple solution with PHP using Flock to write into a shared file on disk. Only request from one team gets the chance to write into that file. Stick to not to use WebSocket, the web page on client site does some polling to receive the "restart" signal from the server for the new question/round. It can run in LAN, different team gets different site, i.e. http://[server-ip]/team1, http://[server-ip]/team2.
You can have control over the round: allow them to press button/ restart, start a new question in http://[server-ip]/admin.
Further improvement can be made in several ways to facilitate your needs (i.e. assign team name, register team, use database instead of a flock file). The code is available here : https://github.com/minhhn2910/buzzergameshow
I am building an extension for Chrome and Can't decide If I should use chrome.windows.create type popup , panel or detached panel. I could not find a comparative study of the three options . Any links or short description of positives and limitations of each will be helpful .
Thanks
You are having difficulty understanding it, because unless you specifically enabled an experimental feature, they are exactly the same, or rather the latter ones are ignored and a popup type is created.
Unfortunately, this means that this API is unavailable for general use until Google decides to mark it stable.
Quoting the docs:
The 'panel' and 'detached_panel' types create a popup unless the '--enable-panels' flag is set.
As for what panels are, here is the API proposal with detailed description.
Panels are windows that are visible to the user even while the user is interacting with other applications. The small windows are positioned at the bottom of the screen, with minimal manual window management by the user. This API will allow extension developers to create and use panels.
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An extension opens small "pop up" windows, for example, separate chat sessions, calculator, media player, stock/sport/news ticker, task list, scratchpad, that the user wants to keep visible while using a different application or browsing a different web site. Scattered "pop up" windows are difficult for the user to keep track of, therefore panels are placed along the bottom of the screen and are "always on top".
The user would like easy control of chat windows: finding them, moving them out of the way, etc. Window management of separate chat "pop ups" is time consuming. All panels can be minimized/maximized together.
If you want a real-life example, the Hangouts extension is whitelisted to use this window type; that's how they make the chat panels:
Since chrome doesn't by default enable panels , this need to be set to display panel behavior instead of popup window . Note that popup windows can be re positioned and one can view console window , but none of it is available in panel .
Are there any standards out there for how applications that have a system tray icon should behave?
I recently wrote an application that sits in the system tray most of it's life. I handed it to a friend, and her first instinct was to double click the icon to get at the main window (which worked). But this got me thinking. In .NET atleast, there are all sorts of different events and ways of attaching things to your system tray icon (click [left/right], double click [left/right], context menus, off the top of my head). Just thinking about it, I've come up with applications with a right click context menu (most), left click brings up the same context menu (Live Messenger), a (different) left click context menu (Daemon Tools), left click opens the main window (alot of the Windows notifications), left double click opens the main window (mIRC, lots of other applications). I've yet to discover an application that uses right double click, though I'm sure it's possible...
Are there any usability guidelines or standards as to how your application should behave under any of these particular situations?
You may want to read Those notification icons, with their clicks, double-clicks, right-clicks... what's up with that? from Raymond Chen's blog The Old New Thing.
He even includes a link to Guidelines for the Notification Area (more commonly known as the "system tray").
Unfortunately it's hard to have a standard when every one is different.
Double click to open and right click to have some sort of context menu are the ways I expect it to behave. Having an Exit command as the bottom icon on the context menu is good whenever it makes sense as well.